Chapter Ninety-Nine: Original Sin
The post-production of "The Hangover" was handed over to Lee Yong-sik, of course, the storyboard of the film was completed by the two together, and Lee Yong-sik was very clear about what Ji Ming-cheol wanted to express, and occasionally Ji Ming-cheol would check the editing progress of the film, and then go into the recording studio to tinker with the OST of the movie.
The movie is scheduled to be released on Christmas, and now Ji Mingzhe's energy is focused on MGM's already released "Wind Talker", in fact, he doesn't need to pay much attention to it, he also knows that the movie is a bad box office, and most of the media reviews are also one-sided criticism, this $115 million film will make MGM lose pants.
Perry also paid attention to the movie, and even went to the cinema to see it, but when he came back, he was settled.
"How's it going? Isn't the movie bad? With a cigar in his mouth, Chi Mingzhe crossed Erlang's legs, and his words were careless.
"How so...... This film is supposed to tell a story about friendship and responsibility, but most of the film is immersed in the world of gunpowder and fighting, but the depiction of the relationship between the friendship of friends and the responsibility of soldiers is extremely stingy and inadequate, although there are several scenes in the film with such a little dialogue and description, but they all seem so weak and empty, so ...... You know!" Perry said with a smile, feeling sad for MGM Pictures today.
"In fact, this movie is still a bit interesting, the war scenes are still very good, it is said that most of their funds are invested in props and special effects, and more importantly, they have the wrong direction of film promotion, and they should not focus on any responsibility and friendship, which is exactly what is lacking in the movie. Ji Mingzhe looked at Perry and got up and walked to the couch across from him.
"Yes, but more importantly, the soundtrack repeats the usual musical style of European films of the same genre, heavy, gloomy, desperate, and then hopeful, so that the whole score seems rather banal and boring. Perry brushed the few hairs on his head.
"Who made the soundtrack?" asked Ji Mingzhe.
"It seems to be James Horner. ”
"The one who won two Academy Awards?" Ji Mingzhe was surprised.
"It should be. ”
"That's a pity, the horse stumbled. His 97 Titanic's soundtrack and theme song My Heart Eternal gave him his current status, and now he has lost it. Ji Mingzhe was a little gloating.
"Who's to say no, part of the big failure of this movie is his credit, and you should go see this movie. Perry said earnestly.
"That's it if you don't look at it, it's a pity for my fellow Asian. ”
Chi Mingzhe felt sorry for the director of this movie, John Woo, it was after this movie that his development in Hollywood stopped, thinking of this, Chi Mingzhe said:
"Is it possible to have this director John Woo work with us? I think he will be needed for future MGM films. ”
"Are you sure? uh...... I mean, are you sure you're going to win a MGM movie?" Perry was a little anxious, and seemed to be more anxious than anyone else about MGM's ownership.
"You're Perry again, okay...... Ambition is bound to win. Ji Mingzhe looked at Perry and wanted to laugh a few words, but he couldn't bear to see his expression, so he said seriously.
"Thank you, William!" Perry rubbed his palms, looking like the excitement and nervousness of a hairy boy when he first slept with a girl. Ji Mingzhe shook his head and picked up the phone on the desk.
"Old Kirk, congratulations on your movie being a big hit, with $33 million at the box office in three weeks, which is really amazing. Ji Mingzhe "congratulated" Cork Kirklian on the other end of the phone.
Cork Kirkrian, on the other end of the line, was silent for a while before he spoke:
"Boy, if you're calling to see my jokes, you don't have to, we have an agreement anyway, bring your bastard lawyers to me these two days!"
"Uh, Kirk, you know I didn't mean to, but I really feel sorry for the MGM movie, so please forgive me for my presumptuousness. Ji Mingzhe was a little embarrassed, he didn't expect this old guy to ask him to talk about the acquisition directly.
"You don't have to, I'm for the sake of your cooperation plan, don't be verbose, that's all. "Cork Kirkrian's mood doesn't seem to be good, and he must be in the minds of those fans who resell MGM Pictures, and he is the main culprit responsible for the fall of MGM films.
Ji Mingzhe, who hung up the phone, slapped excitedly, and Perry also looked at him expectantly.
"Okay Perry, don't look at me like that, it's done! ”
"Really, great, I know you can do it, but it's just financial? Is the company having trouble?"
"Funding? should be fine. ”
Chi Mingzhe has his own plan for the funding of the acquisition of MGM films, and he has already invested $60 billion in the oil futures market, and he still has more than $20 billion in his hands. MGM Pictures is only a subsidiary of MGM Group, and there are many other industries such as MGM Entertainment, MGM-Luen Mei Entertainment, Digao International Cinemas, and CAST TV, of course, the hotel industry accounts for the majority, which is also an important reason why Old Kirk acquired MGM in the first place. Chi Mingzhe is only interested in the MGM industry related to movies, and others such as hotels are not expected to be sold by Kirk Kirkrian. But Ji Myung-cheol is not uncommon, as he owns more Courtyard by Marriott hotels on Jeju Island and throughout South Korea than MGM Resorts owns. He estimates that $6 billion will be enough to buy MGM Pictures and related industries, and that some of the rest of the money will be invested in Jeju Island, and the rest will be invested in the mercenary company he just founded. What is it about putting more than $10 billion into a mercenary company?
Chi Mingzhe founded the store in the United States called "Dovesecuritpany" After the security and defense company, he was itched by another idea that could not be suppressed in his heart, this idea has only just emerged, once it is successfully implemented, he will only be able to sit back and relax with this in his life, and this qiē will have to wait for the US military to completely defeat Saddam Hussein and fall into the quagmire of Iraq, he will put forward his own earth-shattering plan with some relevant people, and the most important personnel such as this related person is, of course, our President Bush Jr., who only wants money and shamelessness.
The main target of Chi's earth-shattering plan is Saudi Arabia, a country that has already had a serious crisis of confidence with the United States, and the oil fields there are Chi Mingzhe's dreams, and the "black gold" produced by those oil fields is a non-renewable resource that will only grow in value in the future. Why did the United States attack Iraq? For the sake of democracy? To rescue the Iraqi people who are living in dire straits? No, that is something that "Lei Fengxia" will only consider; Iraq is a big country in the Middle East, located in the center of the Middle East, and its oil reserves rank second in the world, and this oil reserve is the most important reason why it has been beaten; moreover, Iraq has committed its own death, often actively participating in the "manufacture" of "oil weapons" in Arab countries, and has repeatedly tried to achieve its political goals by restricting oil production, raising prices, and embargoing oil.
Since 911, the United States has taken eradicating the hotbed of fundamentalism and curbing the threat of terrorism as another strategic goal it has pursued in the Middle East. With the establishment of the Bush administration's international security strategy centered on maintaining the status of the United States as the "sole superpower," Iraq, a region that occupies an important position in the Middle East's geopolitical economy and is of great geopolitical and economic significance, has become an important target that the United States wants to eliminate, and this is of long-term strategic interest to the United States.
And Saudi Arabia, which has the largest oil reserves in the world, is also a country looking for death, and this time it played a very disgraceful role in the "911" incident. The reason for this is that this country has invested several trillion dollars in the United States, and the Saudi royal family still has a good relationship with Bush Sr., and even Bush Jr. has privately received a lot of benefits from Bush Jr., and has even disregarded national interests, and this is also the reason why Chi Mingzhe loves the Bush family. He invested a lot of money in Bush Jr.'s oil and energy company, but he didn't even want to be a shareholder, and this is also a tacit understanding between the two sides, once Chi Mingzhe needs help, Bush Jr. will definitely do his best to help, of course, there will still be labor fees or something.
At present, the oil reserves of the entire Gulf countries account for two-thirds of the world's total reserves, and the export volume accounts for about 44.5% of the world's total oil exports. The oil producers in this region account for two-thirds of OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) members, and are the most important oil exporters of OPEC, OPEC controls 80% of the world's oil exports, and Saudi Arabia alone accounts for about 1/2 of OPEC's daily output. This has made the US government very uneasy, and they fear that their dependence on Saudi Arabia for oil policy with the whole world will be quite fragile. Therefore, the control of Iraq is of great strategic significance for getting rid of the situation of strict dependence on Saudi Arabian oil and controlling the initiative of world oil supply. But the U.S. government no longer thought that Iraq was easy to fight, but the follow-up problems have made it turbulent here, and this war has been fought for 8 years and cost countless money, but fortunately, before the war, the U.S. government privately made enough money in the oil futures market to subsidize military spending, otherwise it would really be a loss to grandma's house.
Chi Mingzhe will be so optimistic that after the United States occupies Iraq, oil exploitation is not as optimistic as imagined, and at the same time, it is overwhelmed by a large number of attacks by fundamentalist terrorists in the entire Middle East countries, and at the same time, when most of the terrorists are still Saudis, he proposed to Bush Jr. to directly destroy Saudi Arabia and bring the world's largest oil reserves country under the rule of the United States. Saudi Arabia has given George W. Bush a slap in the face on the "911" incident, putting him in an embarrassing situation in all respects, and it is impossible to say that he does not hate in his heart, and Chi Mingzhe can even propose a way to raise the army on its own and take care of its own military expenses to unite those interested people and organizations to form a mercenary army to send troops to Saudi Arabia, and the US Government only needs to support it behind the scenes and in international public opinion, such as declaring Saudi Arabia to be the culprit of "911"!" It is the cradle of a terrorist organization or something. The reward is that the United States finally takes out a part of Saudi Arabia's oil fields and distributes them to the people and organizations involved in this plan, of course, these need to do a lot of preparatory work, first of all, how to transfer the hatred of the American people to the Saudis, but Chi Mingzhe is not worried about this, "911" has already made most people in the United States dissatisfied, and the "Fahrenheit 911" movie can not be secretly funded and let it start filming in advance, I am afraid that Bush Jr. will be embarrassed by then. And how should those big American conglomerates and families lobby, Jewish organizations are easy to manage, Israel has always been a thorn in the side of Muslim countries in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has always been the vanguard of anti-Semitism, and secretly funded many organizations against Israel, Chi Mingzhe's plan may make these Jews raise their hands to welcome, and the church power is also a very important part, they and Muslims are natural opponents. This qiē still needs to be planned by him slowly.
"These damn Arabs, what virtues did their ancestors gather, they were born with endless money, endless oil in the ground, and extravagance all day long, right...... And the United Arab Emirates is the same country, why are these people born noble? Hmph! These people are moths, they are scum, they all deserve to die, and we should give up all the oil to those of us who have made important contributions to the world economy, and this is what some flavor is. Possession of oil resources is your original sin. ”
Ji Mingzhe muttered in the garden of the villa area of the Courtyard by Marriott Malibu, and after he left Skyrim Pictures, his mind was full of Saudi problems.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and other oil-producing countries, their people do not have to work on weekdays, the government will pay every month, and the children will also be given villas and cars when they become adults, and in their countries, the people who work are foreign workers and people from poor Middle Eastern countries, on average, five to six foreigners support one of their own people, which makes Chi Mingzhe very envious and jealous, the key is that these damn guys still look down on those who work for them, and most of the time their words are full of contempt. He has also seen a lot of videos about the local tyrants in the Arab world in later generations, which are really extravagant and extravagant. So he thinks that these Arabs should be damned, and every Middle Eastern country with oil should contribute their oil resources, and it is better to give them all. This goldfish guy is really sick.
"Chu Long Oni, accompany me tomorrow to send money to my doll mother at home!" A soft voice interrupted Chi Mingzhe's conjecture, he stopped and looked up to see a little girl sitting by the fountain pool in the garden in front of the bushes, talking Zheng Huilin, who had changed his name, of course, this name is the credit of Chi Mingzhe.
"Endi is really filial, just have the money and know to remit it to the family. He's a good boy. Park Chulong hugged Endi's body and kissed her on the little face.
Ernie ...... My doll mother is very hard, this can save her from getting up early and being greedy, it's all thanks to Oba!" Zheng Endi shook his little head, first a little shy, and then said with a smile.
"I'm going to send money home too, let's go with us tomorrow!" Lee Ji-eun continued.
Ji Myung-cheol counted it, Park Chu-long, Yoon Pu-mi, Jung Eun-di, Lee Ji-eun, and Bae so-ji and So-woo are all there, except for Suzy, So-woo and Ji-eun, the A-pink of later generations is just missing Kim Nam-joo and Oh Ha-young, otherwise the whole group will be alive. But somehow, the topic gradually turned to Ji Mingzhe, at first he said that Park Ji-yeon invited Zheng Xiujing to dinner two days ago, and they almost died of laughter, and then they all knew that in the end it was Ji Ming-cheol who gave the money to Park Ji-yeon, everyone was very envious, and said that Ji Mingzhe was eccentric, and only knew that it was good for Park Ji-yeon and Zheng Xiujing, and they were like children who no one cared about. Especially Xiao Xiuzhi, the grievance he talked about, he even made Ji Mingzhe's movie! Later, he ignored others.
Ji Mingzhe, who was eavesdropping on the side, was ashamed in his heart! He only cared about Park Ji-yeon and Zheng Xiujing, and the feelings of the other girls were ignored, he blamed himself very much, and decided to care more about the bodies of these girls in the future...... Ahem!
"Oba is wrong! I'm sorry for you!" Ji Mingzhe's abrupt voice startled the girls.
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